Friday, March 09, 2007

Orthomom Lawsuit Update

Steven I. Weiss posts an update on the Greenbaum/Google/Orthomom lawsuit, with lots of goodies included. Don't miss it - and I'll have much more in the way of comment after Shabbat. To all my readers: Shabbat Shalom and have a great weekend.

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Hope Pam is saving up her pennies. She's likely to get hit with paying attorney's fees for Orthomom, not to mention her own. Meanwhile, Pam comes across as someone who has no clue about the law or how to interact with the very community she was elected to represent.

But as for Canonist's comment on the Latin, I found this: Pro se is a Latin adjective meaning "for self", that is applied to someone who represents himself (or herself) without a lawyer in a court proceeding, whether as a defendant or a plaintiff and whether the matter is civil or criminal.

I thought this case was supposed to be dismissed. And what happened, did the judge order something or not? "

Read the papers. It couldn't have been dismissed yet. The judge hadn't even looked at the case when it came before her last month. And it appears from the judge's stip that all she ordered was for OM to be notified and heard before the April 5 court date. It appears to me that Feder and Pam were looking to pull a fast one here. They somehow thought that the judge would look at this and order Google to finger OM, and that Google would do so without notifying OM. You can see that by the fact that they didn't inform OM of their intention to sue. Interestingly, if you look at the website OM links here, the blogger (Weiss) posts a threat from someone who asks him to take down a certain (unrelated) post or else face a libel suit. It seems me that had Pam done this first, she wouldn't look quite as bad as she does now. Instead of looking as if she actually cares about redress or harm, she looks like she is misusing the court as her personal private eye, hoping simply to find out OM's identity. Everyone knows the libel charge has zero merit. This is called a SLAPP suit. What Feder/Greenbaum probably did not anticipate is OM getting a lawyer who specializes in this, and who (from my google searches) seems to have a perfect record on this subject of first amendment protection. Anyone know if Feder's record is as good? Or even good?

So...since Mr. Feder can't very well argue the merits of his case (the case has none), he's resorting to making travel arrangements for the opposing attorney as inconvenient as possible. Wasting everyone's time and such. Classy, huh?

Hang in there, Orthomom. Pamela is nuts. Mr. Feder doesn't sound like much of an attorney either. I suspect that he's way in over his head.